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Important Sports Memorabilia & Cards [N08178]
7:15 AM PT - Jun 24th, 2006

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Sotheby's New York

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293 Items

Lot Description Estimates
(USD)
1 Lot 1

1858 Fashion Race Course Original Official Handwritten Scorers Reports from Baseball's 1st Championship All-Star Gra...

50,000
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100,000
10 Bids
2 Lot 2

Circa 1860's Brooklyn Eckfords Gold Presentation Watch Fob Given By the Team To Captain Frank Pidgeon Upon His Retire...

20,000
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30,000
11 Bids
3 Lot 3

Jason Rogers' Own 1857 Trophy Ball Between the Morrisania Unions and Brooklyn Excelsiors

By 1857 the game of b...

25,000
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35,000
11 Bids
4 Lot 4

1861 "Home Run Quick Step" Baseball Sheet Music On
1861 "Home Run Quick Step" Baseball Sheet Music

One of o...

3,000
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4,000
9 Bids
5 Lot 5

Harpers Weekly The Winning Run Print Dated 1885 Featuring Hall of Fame Catcher Buck Ewing

This tinted color pr...

2,500
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3,500
1 Bid
6 Lot 6

1886 Detroit Lorillard Team Card One of four cards
1886 Detroit Lorillard Team Card

One of four cards from ...

3,000
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4,000
1 Bid
7 Lot 7

1887 N284 Buchner Gold Coin Baseball Group of 70 Different Including 15 Hall of Famers

This group includes more t...

12,000
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15,000
7 Bids
8 Lot 8

Nineteenth-Century Fingerless Baseball Glove with Matching Full Finger Glove

In 1869, Doug Allison, a catcher ...

8,000
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10,000
11 Bids
9 Lot 9

Circa 1910 Reach Tin Litho Baseball Advertising Display Sign

The Reach company and American Art Works spared n...

7,000
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10,000
7 Bids
10 Lot 10

1890 Syracuse Stars Large Format Imperial Cabinet: The Players League Rebellion

In 1890, the very best baseb...

3,000
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5,000
1 Bid
11 Lot 11

Rare Fighting Hearts Three-Sheet Movie Poster Thi
Rare Fighting Hearts Three-Sheet Movie Poster

This obscu...

6,000
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8,000
2 Bids
12 Lot 12

1910 Philadelphia Athletics Ornate World Champions Ribbon

The first decade of World Series baseball came to ...

2,500
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3,500
12 Bids
13 Lot 13

Eddie Collins c. 1917-21 H B Pro Model Bat Eddie
Eddie Collins c. 1917-21 H B Pro Model Bat

Eddie Coll...

3,000
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5,000
4 Bids
14 Lot 14

1920 Hugh Jennings Signed Baseball One of baseba
1920 Hugh Jennings Signed Baseball

One of baseball's ...

3,000
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4,000
11 Bids
15 Lot 15

1908 DETROIT TIGERS TEAM LARGE STUDIO PHOTOGRAPH

In spite of his bitter, contentious nature, Ty Cobb's baseba...

3,000
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4,000
3 Bids
16 Lot 16

Circa 1917-21 Ty Cobb H&B Game Used Bat (MEARS A9)

Ty Cobb's compulsion to succeed on the diamond prompt...

60,000
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80,000
2 Bids
17 Lot 17

Lefty Grove's 1929 World Championship Ring from Grove Estate

In 1929, the Philadelphia A's, led by manager Conni...

10,000
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15,000
7 Bids
18 Lot 18

Lefty Grove Single Signed Baseball Robert Moses
Lefty Grove Single Signed Baseball

Robert Moses Lefty...

1,500
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2,500
18 Bids
19 Lot 19

Tris Speaker Full Sized Decal Bat, circa 1910 Ha
Tris Speaker Full Sized Decal Bat, circa 1910

Hall of...

2,500
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3,500
8 Bids
20 Lot 20

1930 World Champion Philadelphia Athletics Team Signed Baseball Inc. Mack, Foxx, Grove, Cochrane & Simmons

In...

3,000
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4,000
15 Bids
21 Lot 21

Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth Autograph Display Property from the Collection of Steve Myland

This trio of bas...

3,000
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4,000
19 Bids
22 Lot 22

1942 Ty Cobb and Bing Crosby Dual Signed Baseball With Box

After his retirement as a player, Ty Cobb did not ...

15,000
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20,000
5 Bids
23 Lot 23

Ty Cobb Signed Oversized Portrait Photograph Thi
Ty Cobb Signed Oversized Portrait Photograph

This 9 ½...

2,500
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3,500
1 Bid
24 Lot 24

Ty Cobb Autographed Baseball Ty Cobb is remembere
Ty Cobb Autographed Baseball

Ty Cobb is remembered as mu...

8,000
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12,000
14 Bids
25 Lot 25

Ty Cobb Single Signed Baseball w/ Related Handwritten Letter and Shipping Label (3 Cobb Signed Pieces)

In early ...

7,000
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10,000
2 Bids
25A Lot 25A

1932 U.S. Caramel #14 Ty Cobb PSA 8 NM-MT The v
1932 U.S. Caramel #14 Ty Cobb PSA 8 NM-MT

The very sc...

6,000
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9,000
10 Bids
26 Lot 26

1888 Champion New York Giants Sporting Time Cigar Card Property from the Collection of Steve Myland

This Sporting...

2,500
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3,500
2 Bids
27 Lot 27

1911 Full World Series Ticket – Game , Philadelphia A's vs. New York Giants

The 1911 World Series was a rematch ...

3,000
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4,000
5 Bids
28 Lot 28

1922 Christy Mathewson "Big Six" Board Game Displays (3)

The elaborate and elegant design for the box cover of C...

2,000
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3,000
1 Bid
30 Lot 30

1951 NL Champion New York Giants Team Signed Baseball

Few players stormed into the big leagues the way Willie...

1,000
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1,500
6 Bids
31 Lot 31

1914 Babe Ruth Senior Year Book from St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, Baltimore Property from the Collection o...

7,000
-
10,000
11 Bids
32 Lot 32

1916 World Series "Scored" Program From Game Two - Babe Ruth's Historic Extra-Innings Game Property from the Collec...

6,000
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8,000
1 Bid
33 Lot 33

Original Wire Photo of Babe Ruth's First Home Run At Yankee Stadium, Grand Opening Day, April 18, 1923

This 8...

2,000
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3,000
13 Bids
34 Lot 34

1923 World Champion New York Yankees Team Signed Baseball

On April 18, 1923, Yankee Stadium opened to the larges...

10,000
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15,000
15 Bids
35 Lot 35

1927 Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Signed Barnstorming Photograph

This famous photograph captures the two great sl...

40,000
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60,000
9 Bids
36 Lot 36

1927 Babe Ruth Signed Exhibit Card (PSA/DNA Grade 9 Mint) Property from the Collection of Steve Myland

A fortunat...

3,000
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4,000
14 Bids
37 Lot 37

1927 World Champion New York Yankees Team Signed Baseball (clubhouse Ruth)

This Reach OAL (Johnson) ball has ...

6,000
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8,000
8 Bids
38 Lot 38

1927 New York Yankees Original 8 by 10 Team Photograph

As legendary teams go the 1927 Yankees had it all; two...

1,500
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2,500
10 Bids
39 Lot 39

1927 Lou Gehrig Side Written, Vault Marked Louisville Slugger Bat Property from the Collection of Steve Myland

40,000
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60,000
20 Bids
40 Lot 40

1927 World Champion New York Yankees Signed Baseball – Plus Cobb and Collins

The 1927 New York Yankees poste...

8,000
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12,000
7 Bids
41 Lot 41

Circa 1929 New York Yankees Team Signed Baseball incl. Ruppert and Huggins

This baseball is signed in bold in...

10,000
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15,000
14 Bids
42 Lot 42

1927 Underwood And Underwood Wire Photo Featuring Ruth, Gehrig And Lazzeri

This original wire photograph by "...

3,000
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4,000
7 Bids
43 Lot 43

1927 Signed Yankees and Pirates World Series Baseball

After suffering a seventh game loss to St. Louis in the...

10,000
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15,000
1 Bid
44 Lot 44

Tabletop One Cent Mutascope Featuring Babe Ruth Swinging A Bat and Boxing

This circa 1930's International Mut...

8,000
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10,000
13 Bids
45 Lot 45

1928 World Champion New York Yankees Team Signed Baseball

In 1928 the defending World Champion Yankees held off ...

4,000
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6,000
13 Bids
46 Lot 46

1928 Signed Limited Edition Copy Of Babe Ruth's Own Book Of Baseball Property from the Collection of Steve Myland

6,000
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8,000
16 Bids
47 Lot 47

Pair of 1928 Fro-Joy Uncut Sheets and Original Mailing Envelopes

As did a variety of companies of the day, Fro-J...

3,000
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4,000
1 Bid
48 Lot 48

Babe Ruth Signed Baseball, Circa 1920's Property from the Collection of Steve Myland

Ruth's signature (6/10) ador...

4,000
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6,000
22 Bids
49 Lot 49

Babe Ruth NEW YORK YANKEES HOME Flannel PANTS Circa Late 1920'S

These well-worn pinstriped flannel game pants...

20,000
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30,000
32 Bids
50 Lot 50

Babe Ruth Signed George Burke Photo The artistry
Babe Ruth Signed George Burke Photo

The artistry of G...

4,000
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6,000
4 Bids
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